The false belief I’ve had my entire life is that the so-called spiritual path will deliver me from self-doubt, anxiety, difficulty, anger, any negative feelings I have really or that I identify as negative…

Previous to my Rocky Mountain tour through Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming, I hadn’t seriously considered the dangers of fly fishing other than slipping on a rock and twisting an ankle or even toppling over with the small possibility of drowning should my waders fill with water…

This morning went the way it always does: wake at 6am, straight into rumination, Wim Hof breathing, a guided meditation to avoid ruminating, followed by the dreaded cold shower…

His advice reminded me of another Eckhart Tolle quote, “There are two ways of being unhappy. Not getting what you want is one. Getting what you want is the other…

Three years ago, after a much needed break from the world of tech and staring at computers, I moved to a Zen monastery in the Jemez Mountains of New Mexico…